Summary: The extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: "A radically simple method teaching menopausal women to lose weight by changing their mindset"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN CarolArduini, Paolo.
Summary: Discusses the science, evolution, and history of fossils and describes how they are formed, where they can be found, and what people can learn from them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1986
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Publisher / Publication Date: M. Evans 1990
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1998
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Summary: Items: Is Fashion Modern? presents 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a profound impact on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries. Arranged A-Z encyclopedia-style, it includes designs as iconic as Levi's 501 jeans, the pearl necklace and Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking, and as ancient and rich as the sari, the Breton shirt, the kippah and the keffiyeh. The catalog...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Museum of Modern Art 2017
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Summary: From aligning and folding the sheets to stitching the body to adding attractive endpapers, this manual provides in-depth knowledge of the fundamentals of bookbinding.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling Pub. 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 914.5 LAZPostel, Sandra
Summary: Sandra Postel takes readers around the world to explore water projects that work with, rather than against, nature's rhythms. In New Mexico, forest rehabilitation is safeguarding drinking water; along the Mississippi River, farmers are planting cover crops to reduce polluted runoff; and in China, "sponge cities" are capturing rainwater to curb urban flooding. Efforts like these will be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2017
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Summary: "Profiles activist grandmothers in fifteen countries on five continents who tell their compelling stories in their own words."--Front jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerHouse Books 2012
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Summary: "Romanticize your life anywhere. The Cottage Fairy Companion helps readers open their eyes to the everyday magic right in front of them. It gives a new perspective by revealing the lessons nature teaches about finding beauty through the good times and the bad. Everyone from--city-dwellers to country bobkins--can find delight in this book. It shows that you do not need a cottage in the rustic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yellow Pear Press 2022
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Summary: "Young Latinos across the United States are redefining their identities, pushing boundaries, and awakening politically in powerful and surprising ways. Many of them--Afrolatino, indigenous, Muslim, queer and undocumented, living in large cities and small towns--are voices who have been chronically overlooked in how the diverse population of almost sixty million Latinos in the U.S. has been...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.868 RAMParola, Shirley Tong.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Diamond Hawaii Press 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: Arbor House 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.7554 HILLakshmi, Padma
Summary: The Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs includes complete descriptions, histories, and cooking suggestions for ingredients from basic herbs to the most exotic seeds and chilies, as well as information on toasting spices, making teas, and infusing various oils and vinegars.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ECCO, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.3 LAKYourgrau, Palle.
Summary: It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Godel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. The two walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science in which they had grown up. By 1949, Godel had produced a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2005
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGregor Pub. 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.91 FALDoucet, Julie
Summary: In My New York Diary - one of the first contemporary graphic novels - Doucet abruptly packs her bags and moves to New York. Trouble follows her in the form of a jealous boyfriend, insecurity about her talent, her worsening epilepsy, and a tendency to self-medicate with booze and drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drawn & Quarterly Publications 1999
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Summary: "Many children, from the time they are old enough to be attracted to a siren and flashing lights, dream of becoming a police officer. As a retired police officer herself, Alley Evola looks at the daily ins and outs of the job of a police officer. Through recruitment, life at the academy, patrol, and eventually promotion, she provides a helpful understanding of what you can really expect. She...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2017
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Summary: "In this autobiographical narrative, an Iranian-American pediatrician and mother of three is blindsided when one of her children comes out as transgender. As the author grapples with her child's transition from male to female, she is forced to re-examineher ideas of parenting, gender, and personal identity"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Library 2020
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Summary: The number of urban beekeepers has escalated with more than 25 percent increases year over year in the United States and the United Kingdom. From a go-to authority on beekeeping and backyard farming, The Rooftop Beekeeper is the first handbook to explore the ease and charm of keeping bees in an urban environment. This useful manual--at once a good read and a pretty object--features a relatable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 638.1 PASValla, Mike.
Summary: 43 American fly-tying masters, from Marbury to Marinaro, Gordon to GrantColor photos of the flies plus recipes for nearly 300 fliesImportant historical record includes profiles of tiers around the country including Art Flick, Ray Bergman, Lee Wulff, Don Gapen, Len Halladay, Andre Puyans, Cal Bird, Lew Oatman, Dave Whitlock, and 34 more influential tiers
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Publisher / Publication Date: [publisher not identified] 2013